The Avenue (L'avenue)
1899
Edouard Vuillard
Artist, French, 1866 - 1939
Artist, French, 1868 - 1940
Printer, French, 1868 - 1940
Artwork overview
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Medium
color lithograph on China paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 30 x 40 cm (11 13/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
sheet: 33.4 x 44.9 cm (13 1/8 x 17 11/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1950.16.267
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Catalogue Raisonné
Roger-Marx 1948, no. 33, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1950.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1950
Vollard, Connoisseur: Modern French Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1950 – 1951, no cat.
1951
French Nineteenth-Century, Maryville College, TN, 1951.
1953
Nineteenth-Century Prints by French Painter-Printmakers from the Rosenwald Collection, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1953.
1954
Lithographs by Bonnard, Vuillard, and Maurice Denis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954.
1963
American Federation of Arts, 1963.
1967
Selection of Post-Impressionist and Expressionist Prints, from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1967.
1970
Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970.
1977
Prints of Paris: The 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no cat.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Avenue.
2000
Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, no. 68, as L'Avenue, from Paysages et intérieurs.
Bibliography
1948
Roger-Marx, Claude. L'Oeuvre grave de Vuillard. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1948.
2000
Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001: no. 68.
Inscriptions
lower left, in graphite: 42; verso, lower left, in graphite: 181.21.42
Markings
verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d)
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65222761